Delicious Dishes by Debbie: February 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

New Items for Spring at CSN Stores online....check out their outdoor playsets!

‘CSN Stores has over 200 online stores where you can find anything you need whether it be "outdoor playsets", fitness equipment, or even cute cookware!’ Click on the words, outdoor playsets, to get a direct link to all the playsets CSN Stores have to offer. I have found that shopping there is so quick and easy and they have anything you might want for a price that you would be glad to pay. They even offer free shipping on many items.

Check out this great deal....for just $225.99 you can have this sent to your house with free shipping....that's a savings of $125.00 alone on the swing set, never mind the shipping.

So while you are relaxing in the cool shade, reading your favorite cookbook, you can watch the kids have a great time outside on the swing set or another great item you've gotten from CSN Stores online.

How about something for the kitchen???? That's my favorite department...

I just took a knife stills class in Salt Lake City and the instructor said that this brand of knives were good quality.
I know the price is right too. Just $99.99 for the entire set...that's a savings of $137.00 and the shipping is free on these also.

Be sure to go to CSN Stores at www.csn.com. to meet all your shopping needs.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Ham-I-Am-Giveaway Starts TODAY, Green Eggs and Ham 50th Anniversary

Congratulations to follower JILL!!! You have won this terrific give-a-way. Please contact me within 24 hours with your address to receive your prize. Keep watching for more giveaways. Love to all. Debbie

Do you like Green Eggs and Ham? Would you eat them in the rain or on a train? If so, it’s time to say cheers to 50 years of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham… In the kitchen! I have loved teaching my children to cook and have had some of the most fun times and memories in the kitchen with them. I also loved reading Green Eggs and Ham and other great Dr. Seuss books to them. They remember that so well and it was a time when we could bond as mother and child. Today, both boys cook great and one is even cooking in a restaurant....he loves it. I know that they too will read these very same favorite books to their children. You can win a special edition of the Green Eggs and Ham book celebrating the 50th anniversary of this story.

I'm working with Random House Children’s Books and asking YOU to help us celebrate this milestone by reviving the classic story with recipes that give green eggs and ham a 21^st century twist. Celebrity chefs Michael Symon and Melissa d’Arabian, Mitzi Dulan, RD, CSSD and Steamy Kitchen blogger Jaden Hair have created inspired recipes that not only teach kids about nutrition and healthy eating, but teaches them a life skill that can help boost their self esteem.

AND it’s a great time to bond as a family!

If interested, you could win your very own, “Ham-I-Am Giveaway” and win a Green Eggs and Ham gift set. The giveaway package includes the following:

· Green Eggs and Ham 50^th Anniversary Edition

· One set of adult sized Green Eggs and Ham apron/chef hat

· One set of kid sized Green Eggs and Ham apron/chef hat

· One gift certificate valued at $25 for your favorite pork product

· One extendable fork

I'm asking my followers to submit responses to: “Which recipe did your kids have the most fun making?” or “What’s your family’s favorite way to have fun in the kitchen?” for a chance to win. If you are not a follower, please sign up and make your comment. You can receive an extra entry for posting to your facebook, posting to your blog, and for posting the giveaway to your twitter account. Be sure to make a separate posting for each entry and give me the link to the posting please.

I am also going to add a great recipe for delicious ham salad for you to make with the delicious ham that you could win. So why not take the time to pass this on to your friends and family and give them a chance to win this great prize? I will draw a name on February 18th, so you have one week to enter. Good Luck!

Ham Salad Recipe
Preparation time: 20 minutes. Serves 8-10.

Salad Ingredients:

1 1/2 pound trimmed, diced ham

1/2 cup thinly sliced celery

2 tablespoons diced red onions

2 hard cooked eggs, chopped
Dressing Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups mayonnaise

2 tablespoons mustard

1 1/2 teaspoons honey

2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish

Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

Combine salad ingredients (diced ham, celery, onion, eggs).

In a mixing bowl, combine dressing ingredients and mix until smooth (no lumps).

Combine the ham mixture with the dressing and serve.

Please note that the National Pork Board is not sponsoring the giveaway promotion, but rather supplying the prize pool for you and supplied the same prize for me to host this giveaway.

Strawberry Heaven

“The “Debbie” recipe – the recipe that is authentically me.
My absolute favorite dessert recipe.”
All I ever talk about loving is strawberries. I am to strawberries as Paula Deen is to potatoes and butter.
When thinking about my absolute favorite dessert, it had to combine cheesecake, strawberries, and chocolate. Chocolate covered strawberries to be exact!!! So I developed a pie that features all my weaknesses. I love a regular pie crust instead of graham cracker so I have used pie crust, topped with a luscious layer of Kraft Philadelphia Ready-to-Eat Cheesecake Filling, followed by 1 pound of ripe, juicy strawberries enveloped in strawberry glaze topped with creamy, dreamy Cool Whip, and followed by 6 GIANT chocolate covered strawberries. This pie would be a strawberry lovers’ most decadent dream. It is mine…now you know what I dream about.

Strawberry Heaven
Prep time: 50 minutes Cook time: 9 minutes
Serves 6 - 8
1 refrigerated pie crust
1 ½ c. Kraft Philadelphia Ready-to-Eat Cheesecake Filling
2 lbs. of strawberries
14 oz. strawberry pie glaze
8 oz Cool Whip
¾ c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2. Place pie crust in pie pan and flute edges. Bake at 450 degrees for 9 minutes.
3. Cool pie crust at room temperature for 10 minutes and follow in freezer for 10 minutes to cool quickly.
4. While pie crust is cooking and cooling, prepare other ingredients beginning with strawberries. Wash strawberries, core, and slice in half. Save 6 LARGE strawberries for top of pie. Eat a few and enjoy them while you are working so hard. Save enough for the pie.
5. Melt chocolate chips in microwave for approximately 1 minute stirring every 20 seconds. Dip 6 large strawberries in chocolate about ¾ of the way up the strawberry. Place a piece of parchment paper on a plate and cool the strawberries on the paper in the freezer.
6. After the pie crust comes out of the freezer, spread the cheesecake filling directly on top of crust.
7. Place strawberries directly on top of cheesecake and pour strawberry glaze over strawberries.
8. Pipe Cool Whip over strawberries and glaze and top with chocolate covered strawberries. Place in freezer for approximately 15 minutes and serve. Refrigerate any leftovers.